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Now, in addition to frogman, professional wrestler, politician, sports announcer, and guy with an outrageously annoying Minnesota accent, the current governor of the Gopher State – or whatever its damn nickname is – Jesse Ventura is negotiating to be a talk show host: Jesse Ventura is in talks with MSNBC …

Starpolish did an interview with Jam Master Jay just six weeks before he was murdered: STARPOLISH: It’s no secret that Run DMC is singled out as being the band that broke hip hop to the mainstream while still maintaining every ounce of credibility along the way. First and foremost, I …

Jefferson Chase thinks so: It is no accident that ideas like these should be put forth in a German journal. Germans are not as humorless as stereotypes would have it, but German nationalism was characterized historically, from its inception in the mid-18th century to the end of the Nazi catastrophe, …

Speaking of crushingly awful reality shows, (all of them) USA Today has the scoop on the hoops contestants must leap through just to get on each pitiful mess: Name. Address. Age. Education. Sexual fantasy. What kind of application asks for such an intimate detail? One that gets the winning hopeful …

The comic sites are buzzin’ about former Marvel honcho Stan Lee’s lawsuit against Marvel Comics: Tuesday, he filed a $10 million lawsuit charging that the company is cheating him out of his share of lucrative movie profits. With the movie versions of Daredevil and X-Men II on the event horizon …

We are still in the middle of getting moved in to our new house, and getting organized, set up, settled in, and whatnot. I spent much of last night putting together a “home entertainment center,” which means slapping together a bunch of fake wood and hoping it doesn’t collapse under …

Fortune thinks so: things look pretty darn bleak for Martha, right? Actually, no. First of all, barring new revelations, it’s unlikely that any criminal charges will stick. If the SEC forces her to step down as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she’ll still control it because she owns 62% …

I was wondering whether it was just my perception that there were even more (piss-poor) political commercials on TV this time around. There were: Candidates, parties and their special interest supporters spent a record $1 billion on television ads in the 2002 election cycle – double the amount spent in …

We’ll send this one out to Glenn Reynolds, who digs ’em. For a brief but very intense period from 1969 through 1971, Creedence was the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in America, generating nine Top 10 singles in a row (“Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising/Lodi,” “Green River,” “Down On the …

While we’re on the topic of reggae, did you know that remixing and rap can both be traced back to Jamaica? That’s one musically influential little island. The art of remixing, used ubiquitously in dance music of every stripe since the late ’70s, can be traced back to Jamaica and …